Wistron Demonstrates PCIe Gen4 on Power9
By Wistron Corporation Wistron P9 products with PCIe Gen4 For today’s complex HPC, Enterprise, and Data-Center workloads, the need for high-speed I/O is paramount… Read more
Barreleye G2 and Zaius Motherboard Samples Showcased at the OpenPOWER Summit
By Adi Gangidi Rackspace showcased brand new Zaius PVT motherboard samples and Barreleye G2 servers at the OpenPOWER Summit, demonstrating industry leading capabilities. Collaboration between Google… Read more
OpenPOWER Summit: XL compilers support the latest POWER9 hardware
This blog post was originally published by IBM here. The March 2018 OpenPOWER Summit in Las Vegas featured “15 porting and tuning tools in 30 minutes“, where IBM’s POWER9-supporting compilers were… Read more
Call for Papers: International Workshop on OpenPOWER for HPC
In collaboration with the ISC High Performance Conference, the OpenPOWER Foundation is organizing the third HPC workshop in Frankfurt, Germany. These workshops have always… Read more
How OpenPOWER Members Created the World’s First Production-ready PCIe Gen4 NVM Express System
What is NVM Express (NVMe)? NVMe is a new and increasingly popular protocol for interfacing with Solid State Drives (SSDs) in enterprise, data-center and… Read more
OpenPOWER Ecosystem Spurs Innovation in AI and Hyperscale Datacenters
Industry leaders like Google, Uber, Hitachi, Inspur, and Atos came together with representatives from the 325 OpenPOWER Foundation members today at the OpenPOWER Summit… Read more
A Better Way to Compress Big Data
Wasting CPU hours on compression The Center for Genome Research and Biocomputing (CGRB) has a large computing resource that supports researchers at Oregon State… Read more
#OpenPOWERChat Provides a Sneak Peek of OpenPOWER Summit 2018
Robbie Williamson, Chair of the Board, OpenPOWER Foundation Last week was a special occasion: the OpenPOWER Foundation hosted its first Twitter Chat – moderated… Read more
The Ohio State University Announces Enhanced Support of Power Systems for High-Performance Computing
By Dhabaleswar K (DK) Panda, Professor and University Distinguished Scholar of Computer Science and Engineering, The Ohio State University The Department of Computer Science… Read more
Join Our first #OpenPOWERChat on Twitter
Hi OpenPOWER Foundation members, We’re excited to announce our first Twitter chat on Thursday, March 1 at 3:00 p.m. ET. Here are some of… Read more
User Feedback on the IBM® POWER9 Functional Simulator
By Leif Reinert, Bradford Thomasson and Saif Abrar Earlier this week, we introduced the availability of the POWER9 Functional Simulator. Our team is proud… Read more
Introducing IBM® POWER9 Functional Simulator
By Leif Reinert, Bradford Thomasson and Saif Abrar As we launch POWER9, our IBM Cognitive Systems Simulation team is proud to introduce the POWER9… Read more
Minicloud: The FREE OpenPower Cloud by University of Campinas
Minicloud aims to bring POWER architecture to everyone free of charge. (Yes, you read that right: FREE of charge.) Minicloud Services Minicloud provides two… Read more
Skymind: Machine Learning from Notebooks to Production
By Adam Gibson, Founder and Chief Technology Officer, Skymind The world of artificial intelligence is developing at an ever-increasing pace. At Skymind, our mission… Read more
Scaling-up Apache Spark
By Ahsan Javed Awan, Research Associate, Imperial College London I recently completed my doctoral thesis, in which I characterize the performance of in-memory data… Read more
OpenPOWER Foundation Executive Director Has a History of Tinkering with Technology
Hugh Blemings, Executive Director, OpenPOWER Foundation It’s fair to say that POWER has been in my blood in one way or another for nearly… Read more
OpenPOWER Foundation Members to Present at SC17 Conference
SC17 takes place November 12-17, 2017. Dedicated to showcasing work in high performance computing, networking, storage and analysis by the international HPC community, this… Read more
Meet the New Chair of the OpenPOWER Foundation Board of Directors
By Robbie Williamson, Chair of the Board of Directors, OpenPOWER Foundation. The OpenPOWER Foundation is an innovative, collaborative and crucially important organization in the… Read more
Meet NCI Australia, the first OpenPOWER member based down under
NCI Australia is Australia’s most highly integrated high-performance research computing environment, providing world-class services to government, industry, and researchers. NCI is based out the… Read more
My Generation: Open Standards Help Members Push Next PCIe Milestone Forward
By Jeff A. Stuecheli, Power Systems Architect, IBM Cognitive Systems Earlier this week, another validation of the OpenPOWER Foundation’s model of collaborative innovation was… Read more
We’re Attending the OpenPOWER Developer Congress — Here’s Why You Should, Too. Insights from Nimbix, Mellanox, and Xilinx
Prominent OpenPOWER Foundation members have provided the reasons they’re taking time out of their busy days to support the OpenPOWER Developer Congress and send… Read more
Hacking Through Machine Learning at the OpenPOWER Developer Congress
By Sumit Gupta, Vice President, IBM Cognitive Systems 10 years ago, every CEO leaned over to his or her CIO and CTO and said,… Read more
Redefining the Developer Event
By Randall Ross, Ubuntu Community Manager with Canonical (04.13.17) We’ve all been to “those other” developer events: Sitting in a room watching a succession… Read more
IIT Bombay OpenPOWER Meetup
About 25 participants came to attend the OpenPOWER Meetup in IIT Bombay. We had the following groups: IITB (4 groups), VIT Pune one group (working… Read more
IBM Portal for OpenPOWER launched for POWER series documentation, system tools and development collaboration
By Andy Pearcy-Blowers, OpenPOWER Applications Engineer and IBM Portal for OpenPOWER Co-Lead & Luis Armenta, Sr. SI Engineer, Project Manager and IBM Portal for OpenPOWER Lead This… Read more
OpenPOWER and Open Compute Open the Data Center
By Bryan Talik, President, OpenPOWER Foundation The old adage “birds of a feather flock together” often proves true, and the members of the OpenPOWER… Read more
Red Hat Joins the OpenPOWER Foundation, adds open source leadership and expertise to community-driven hardware innovation
As part of our commitment to delivering open technologies across many computing architectures, today Red Hat has joined the OpenPOWER Foundation, an open development… Read more
OpenPOWER Foundation Momentum Leads to Greater Community Gains in 2017
Dear OpenPOWER Members, The OpenPOWER Foundation had a great 2016. That momentum will lead us to greater community gains in 2017. In 2016, our… Read more
OpenPOWER Foundation Momentum Leads to Greater Community Gains in 2017
Dear OpenPOWER Members, The OpenPOWER Foundation had a great 2016. That momentum will lead us to greater community gains in 2017. In 2016, our… Read more
OpenPOWER Academic Group Carries 2016 Momentum to New Year
By Ganesan Narayanasamy, Leader, OpenPOWER Academic Discussion Group Academia has always been a leader in pushing the boundaries of science and technology, with some… Read more
Bringing OpenPOWER Outside of the Data Center
By Timothy Pearson, Raptor Engineering Ever wish you could use something other than an insecure x86 or low-powered ARM machine to communicate with the OpenPOWER… Read more
Expanding Ecuador’s Supercomputing Future with Yachay and OpenPOWER
By Alejandra Gando, Director of Communications, Yachay EP The pursuit of supercomputing represents a major step forward for Ecuador and Yachay EP, with IBM and… Read more
New PGI compilers enable seamless migration of GPU-enabled HPC applications from Linux/x86 to NVLink-enabled OpenPOWER+Tesla
By Doug Miles, director of PGI compilers & tools, NVIDIA Corporation NVIDIA introduced the first production release of the PGI Fortran, C and C++… Read more
Speeding Up Precision Medicine with Barcelona Supercomputing Center
By Mateo Valero and Enric Banda, Barcelona Supercomputing Center The last decade has seen a worldwide increasing interest in Precision Medicine (PM). As a result,… Read more
Evaluating Julia for Deep Learning on Power Systems + NVIDIA Hardware
By Deepak Vinchhi, Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer, Julia Computing, Inc. Deep Learning is now ubiquitous in the machine learning world, with useful applications… Read more
Join the SC16 Treasure Hunt!
Calling all Treasure Hunters! We’re going to give you a chance to be a part of the OpenPOWER Revolution – but you’re going to have to… Read more
Deep Learning Goes to the Dogs
By Indrajit Poddar, Yu Bo Li, Qing Wang, Jun Song Wang, IBM These days you can see machine and deep learning applications in so… Read more
CAPI SNAP: The Simplest Way for Developers to Adopt CAPI
By Bruce Wile, CAPI Chief Engineer and Distinguished Engineer, IBM Power Systems Last week at OpenPOWER Summit Europe, we announced a brand-new Framework designed… Read more
OpenPOWER Makes FPGA Acceleration a “SNAP”
By Bruce Wile, CAPI Chief Engineer and Distinguished Engineer, IBM Improving on the CAPI Base Technology In the datacenter, metrics matter. Competition between application… Read more
Barcelona Supercomputing Center Adds HPC Expertise to OpenPOWER
Eduard Ayguadé, Computer Sciences Associate Director at BSC The Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) is Spain’s National Supercomputing facility. Our mission is to investigate, develop… Read more
Advancing the Human Brain Project with OpenPOWER
By Dr. Dirk Pleiter, Research Group Leader, Jülich Supercomputing Centre The Human Brain Project (HBP), a flagship project funded by the European Commission, has… Read more
Innovation Unleashed: OpenPOWER Developer Challenge Winners Announced
By John Zannos, Chairman, OpenPOWER Foundation Developers play an integral role within the OpenPOWER ecosystem, and we’re passionate about welcoming them and their creative… Read more
New Physical Science Work Group Addresses Physics, Chemistry, and more with OpenPOWER
By Andrea Bulgarelli, Chair, OpenPOWER Physical Science Work Group As the application of OpenPOWER technology expands, so too must the OpenPOWER Foundation continue to… Read more
Making Unforgettable MRAM Memory with OpenPOWER
By Adam McPadden, Lead Engineer, Burlington Systems Lab, IBM One of the key tenets of the OpenPOWER Foundation’s collaborative model is that having open… Read more
The Revolution Comes to Europe!
By Amanda Quartly, OpenPOWER Alliances Europe, IBM The only constant to being involved with the OpenPOWER Foundation is change and innovation, and there is… Read more
OpenPOWER Developer Challenge Finalists Announced
By Calista Redmond, President, OpenPOWER Foundation Recently at IBM Edge I had the pleasure of announcing the Finalists of the 2016 OpenPOWER Developer Challenge. … Read more
Recap: CDAC Three Day Workshop on OpenPOWER for HPC and Big Data Analytics
By Dr. VCV Rao, Centre for Development of Advanced Computing Recently, the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (CDAC) in India held a three-day… Read more
OpenPOWER Members Bring Rackspace-Led Open Compute Barreleye Server to Market
By Sam Ponedal, Social Strategist, OpenPOWER Foundation Back in March, we told you about how OpenPOWER members StackVelocity, Mark III Systems, and Penguin Computing… Read more
OpenPOWER Helps India Advance National Supercomputing Mission with new Research Facility at IIT Bombay
By Professor P.S.V. Nataraj, Systems and Control Engineering Group, IIT Bombay During my visit to IBM, Bangalore in April 2014, the idea for having… Read more
Deep Learning Options on OpenPOWER Expand with New Distributions
By Michael Gschwind, Chief Engineer, Machine Learning and Deep Learning, IBM Systems I am pleased to announce a major update to the deep learning frameworks… Read more
OpenPOWER Host OS Repository Launches on GitHub!
By Ricardo Marin Matinata, Linux Architect, KVM and Cloud on POWER, IBM The initial version 0.5 (beta) of the OpenPOWER HostOS repository is available! As… Read more
Why the OpenPOWER Developer Challenge is Important to Kinetica
By Amit Vij, CEO, Kinetica At Kinetica (formerly GPUdb), we have experienced first-hand how the massive hardware acceleration improvements made possible by OpenPOWER can have… Read more
Develop Exciting Cognitive Applications in the OpenPOWER Developer Challenge
By Mike Gschwind, Chief Engineer, Machine Learning and Deep Learning, IBM Cognitive Applications have transformed the face of computing and how humans interact with… Read more
With OpenPOWER, Unicamp Shares Academic Research Across Brazil
By Juliana Rodrigues, Student, Unicamp (This post appears as part of our Developer Series. To learn more about what developers are doing with OpenPOWER,… Read more
E4 Computer Engineering Showcases Full Line of OpenPOWER Hardware at International Supercomputing
By Ludovica Delpiano, E4 Computing E4’s mission, to drive innovation by implementing and integrating cutting-edge solutions with the best performance for every high-end computing… Read more
New Whitepaper: HPC and HPDA for the Cognitive Journey with OpenPOWER
By Dr. Srini Chari, Managing Partner, Cabot Partners I’m pleased to announce the publication of Cabot Partners’ new Whitepaper, HPC and HPDA for the… Read more
New OpenPOWER Software Distribution Puts Deep Learning a Click Away
By Michael Gschwind, Chief Engineer, Machine Learning and Deep Learning, IBM Systems I am pleased to announce that several major deep learning frameworks are now… Read more
Diversify Cloud Computing Services on OpenPOWER with NEC’s Resource Disaggregated Platform for POWER8 and GPUs
By Takashi Yoshikawa and Shinji Abe, NEC Corporation The Resource Disaggregated (RD) Platform expands the use of cloud data centers in not only office… Read more
eASIC Brings Advanced FPGA Technology to OpenPOWER
By Anil Godbole, Senior Marketing Manager, eASIC Corp. eASIC is very excited to join the OpenPOWER Foundation. One of the biggest value propositions of… Read more
Managing Reconfigurable FPGA Acceleration in a POWER8-based Cloud with FAbRIC
By Xiaoyu Ma, PhD Candidate, University of Texas at Austin This post is the first in a series profiling the work developers are doing… Read more
Google, Rackspace, and GPUs: OH MY! See what you missed at OpenPOWER Summit
What has over 50 new hardware reveals, collaboration from over 200 members like Google, Rackspace, IBM, and NVIDIA, and made headlines around the world? That’s… Read more
OpenPOWER Ready™ Solutions Expand Growing OpenPOWER Ecosystem
By Jeff Brown, Distinguished Engineer, Emerging Product Development at IBM Continuing the OpenPOWER Foundation’s momentum, we’ve launched the OpenPOWER Ready™ program at the OpenPOWER… Read more
OpenPOWER Foundation Revolutionizes the Data Center at Summit 2016!
By John Zannos, Chairman, OpenPOWER Foundation As we reach the pinnacle of our second OpenPOWER Summit in San Jose, I want to take a… Read more
Announcing the OpenPOWER Developer Challenge: Tap the Power of Open
By Randall Ross, Ubuntu Community Manager, Canonical One thing that unites my work at Canonical as an Ubuntu Community Manager with my work for… Read more
Go Global with OpenPOWER Developer Resources
By Sam Ponedal, Social Strategist for OpenPOWER, IBM There are many faces that make up the OpenPOWER Foundation and its ecosystem. We have hardware… Read more
Singapore’s A*CRC Joins the OpenPOWER Foundation to Accelerate HPC Research
By Ganesan Narayanasamy, Senior Manager, IBM Systems Singapore’s Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) is the largest government funded research organization in Singapore,… Read more
OpenPOWER Members at Open Compute Summit Detail Their Barreleye Plans
By Sam Ponedal, Social Strategist Last year at Open Compute Summit,OpenPOWER member Rackspace stole the show when they announced their plans to develop Barreleye, their… Read more
India’s Centre for Development of Advanced Computing Joins OpenPOWER to Spread HPC Education
By Dr. VCV Rao and Mr. Sanjay Wandheker An open ecosystem relies on collaboration to thrive, and at the Centre for Advanced Computing (C-DAC),… Read more
New OpenPOWER Member DRC Computing Discusses FPGAs at IBM Interconnect
By Roy Graham, President and COO, DRC Computer Corp. New business models bring new opportunities, and my relationship with IBM is proof-positive of that fact.… Read more
New OpenPOWER Member Brocade Showcases Work at Mobile World Congress
By Brian Larsen, Director, Partner Business Development, Brocade In my 32 year career in the IT industry there has never been a better time… Read more
OpenPOWER Summit 2016: Vive la Révolution!
By Calista Redmond, President, OpenPOWER Foundation OpenPOWER Summit is coming up April 5-8 in San Jose and we want you there! In fact, we’re… Read more
Announcing a New Era of Openness with Power 3.0
By Michael Gschwind, Chief Architect & Senior Manager, Power System Architecture, IBM I am excited to announce the availability of the next generation of the… Read more
Workshop Recap: OpenPOWER Academic Community Shares Latest Advances
By Ganesan Narayanasamy (OpenPOWER Academic Discussion Group Leader) Before SC15 would kick off on November 15th, about 40 of the 170+ members of the… Read more
Continuing the Datacenter Revolution
By John Zannos and Calista Redmond Dear Fellow Innovators, As the newly elected Chair and President of the OpenPOWER Foundation, we would like to… Read more
OpenPOWER: The Rebel Alliance of the Industry
By Sam Ponedal, Social Strategist for OpenPOWER Episode 8: OpenPOWER OpenPOWER A dark empire has spread across the Compute Galaxy. Driven by a zealous… Read more
Workshop Recap: OpenPOWER Personalized Medicine Working Group
By Zaid Al-Ars, Cofounder, Bluebee and Chair of the OpenPOWER Foundation Personalized Medicine Working Group More than 40 participants attended the OpenPOWER Personalized Medicine… Read more
Video: What Does “Open” Mean to You?
By OpenPOWER Foundation Last month the OpenPOWER Foundation was in full force at Supercomputing 2015 in Austin, TX. We had a great time networking… Read more
Video: IBM and OpenPOWER Partner with Oak Ridge National Labs to Solve World’s Toughest Challenges
By Jack Wells, PhD, Director of Science, Oak Ridge National Laboratory The mission of Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) is to deliver scientific discoveries… Read more
Delft University Analyzes Genomics with Apache Spark and OpenPOWER
By Zaid Al-Ars, Cofounder, Bluebee, Chair of the OpenPOWER Foundation Personalized Medicine Working Group, and Assistant Professor at Delft University of Technology The collaboration… Read more
Setting High Standards for OpenPOWER Hardware Architecture
By Michael Gschwind, Chief Architect & Senior Manager, Power System Architecture, IBM When we founded OpenPOWER to create a new inclusive ecosystem built… Read more
NEC’s Service Acceleration Platform for Power Systems Accelerates and Scales Cloud Data Centers
By Shinji Abe, Senior Manager for IT Platform Division of NEC As usage of the cloud expands, cloud data centers will need to be… Read more
Genome Folding and POWER8: Accelerating Insight and Discovery in Medical Research
By Richard Talbot, Director – Big Data, Analytics and Cloud Infrastructure No doubt, the words “surgery” and “human genome” rarely appear in the same… Read more
OpenPOWER’s Guide to SC15: Exhibitor Floor Map
OpenPOWER’s Guide to Beyond SC15: Fun in Austin
Accelerating Key-value Stores (KVS) with FPGAs and OpenPOWER
By Michaela Blott, Principal Engineer, Xilinx Research First, a bit of background– I lead a research team in the European headquarters of Xilinx where… Read more
American Megatrends Custom Built Server Management Platform for OpenPOWER
By Christine M. Follett, Marketing Communications Manager, American Megatrends, Inc. As one of the newest members of the OpenPOWER Foundation, we at American Megatrends,… Read more
Rackspace, OpenPOWER & Open Compute: Full Speed Ahead with Barreleye
By Aaron Sullivan, Senior Director and Distinguished Engineer, Rackspace In an open community, with great partners, it’s amazing how fast things get done. At… Read more
Interconnect Your Future with Mellanox 100Gb EDR Interconnects and CAPI
By Scot Schultz Director of HPC and Technical Computing, Mellanox Business Challenge Some computing jobs are so large that they must be split into… Read more
Using CAPI and Flash for larger, faster NoSQL and analytics
By Brad Brech, Distinguished Engineer, IBM Power Systems Solutions Business Challenge Suppose you’re a game developer with a release coming up. If things go… Read more
Accelerating Business Applications in the Data-Driven Enterprise with CAPI
By Sumit Gupta, VP, HPC & OpenPOWER Operations at IBM This blog is part of a series: Pt 2: Using CAPI and Flash for larger,… Read more
Liquid Cooling for OpenPOWER: Asetek Accelerates the Performance of OpenPOWER Platforms
By Larry Vertal, Data Center Marketing, Asetek Asetek® joined the OpenPOWER™ Foundation in July of this year with great enthusiasm. As the world’s leading… Read more
Opening the Flood Gates- OpenPOWER Two Years Later
By Brad McCredie, President, OpenPOWER Foundation The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step. – Lao Tzu, Chinese Philosopher Two years ago,… Read more
Teuto.net Uses Ubuntu to Bring OpenPOWER-based Systems to the Public Cloud
By Randall Ross, Ubuntu Recently, the German IT company teuto.net, which specializes in providing hosting, cloud and web development services based on open source… Read more
Imperial College London and IBM Join Forces to Accelerate Personalized Medicine Research within the OpenPOWER Ecosystem
By Dr. Jane Yu, Solution Architect for Healthcare & Life Sciences, IBM When the Human Genome Project was completed in 2003, it was a… Read more
PGI OpenPOWER+Tesla Compilers Demo’ing at ISC’15
By Patrick Brooks, PGI Product Marketing Manager Last November at Supercomputing 2014, we announced that the PGI compilers for high-performance computing were coming to… Read more
SuperVessel: Come Create the Era of Heterogeneous Computing with FPGAs for the Cloud
By: Michael Leventhal, Technical Manager, Data Center Acceleration, Xilinx Xilinx believes that we, in collaboration with the OpenPOWER Foundation, are spearheading a new era… Read more
Mellanox and the OpenPOWER EcoSystem to Help Generate Economic Growth
In the latest announcement (UK Government Invests £115 Million in Big Data and Cognitive Computing Research with STFC and IBM), the STFC Hartree Center… Read more
The Open Secret Behind the Success of OpenPOWER
By Brad McCredie, President The release this week of Intel’s new 18-core Haswell-EX chip, gives us an opportunity to gauge how OpenPOWER technology and… Read more
A POWERFUL Birthday Gift to Moore’s Law
By Bradley McCredie President, OpenPOWER Foundation As we prepare to join the computing world in celebrating the 50th anniversary of Moore’s Law, we can’t… Read more
Center of Accelerated Application Readiness: Preparing applications for Summit
Abstract The hybrid CPU-GPU architecture is one of the main tracks for dealing with the power limitations imposed on high performance computing systems. It… Read more
Get Ready to Rethink the Data Center: Welcome to OpenPOWER Summit 2015!
By Gordon MacKean, OpenPOWER Chairman We are here, we made it: the OpenPOWER Foundation’s inaugural Summit, “Rethink the Data Center,” starts tomorrow! I wanted… Read more
Innov8 with POWER8 “Best in Show” Selected at InterConnect2015
By Terri Virnig, Vice President of Power Ecosystem and Strategy, IBM Systems It is hard to believe that this semester’s Innov8 with POWER8 Challenge has… Read more
Crossing the Performance Chasm with OpenPOWER
Executive Summary The increasing use of smart phones, sensors and social media is a reality across many industries today. It is not just where… Read more
DB2 BLU w/GPU Demo – Concurrent execution of an analytical workload on a POWER8 server with K40 GPUs
Abstract In this technology preview demonstration, we will show the concurrent execution of an analytical workload on a POWER8 server with K40 GPUs. DB2… Read more
Deploying POWER8 Virtual Machines in OVH Public Cloud
By Carol B. Hernandez, Sr. Technical Staff Member, Power Systems Design Deploying POWER8 virtual machines for your projects is straightforward and fast using OVH… Read more
OpenPOWER Breaks Through 100 … A Signal of Even More Innovation to Come!
By: Gordon MacKean, OpenPOWER Chairman Today the OpenPOWER Foundation hit a new milestone. We are now officially 101 members strong. But, we all know… Read more
OpenPOWER Breaks Through 100 … A Signal of Even More Innovation to Come!
1 OpenPOWER started with one shared idea — to drive more innovation in the data center. 5 Beginning with five founders — IBM, Google, NVIDIA,… Read more
OpenPOWER Firmware Technical Training
Introducing OpenPOWER Developer Tools – A One Stop Resource for Porting and Building OpenPOWER Compatible Solutions
by Jeff Scheel, IBM Linux on Power Chief Engineer Since its inception, the OpenPOWER Foundation has been dedicated to fostering a collaborative environment to… Read more
The Next Peak in HPC
National Center for Computational Sciences Oak Ridge National Laboratory Oak Ridge, TN, USA Abstract Hybrid CPU+GPU architectures are a response to power limitations imposed… Read more
Join Us for an Action Packed 2015 Summit
– > 30 presentations on wide field of OpenPOWER topics – demo pavilion – isv roundtable – firmware training Its going to be an… Read more
Accelerated Photodynamic Cancer Therapy Planning with FullMonte on OpenPOWER
Abstract Photodynamic therapy (PDT) is a minimally-invasive cancer therapy which uses a light-activated drug (photosensitizer/PS). When the photosensitizer absorbs a photon, it excites tissue oxygen… Read more
Data center and Cloud computing market landscape and challenges
Presentation Objective In this talk, we will gain an understanding of Data center and Cloud computing market landscape and challenges, discuss technology challenges that… Read more
System Management Tool for OpenPOWER
Introduction to Authors Song Yu: Male, IBM STG China, Development Manager Li Guang Cheng: Male, IBM STG China, xCAT Senior Architect Mao Qiu Yin:… Read more
Performance evaluation methodology to the OpenPOWER user community to evaluate the performance using the advanced instrumentation capabilities available in the Power 8 Microprocessor
Speaker’s Bio Satish Kumar Sadasivam is a Senior Performance Engineer and a Master Inventor at IBM STG responsible for Compiler and Hardware Performance analysis… Read more
China POWER Technology Alliance (CPTA)
Objective The objective is to position China POWER Technology Alliance (CPTA) as a mechanism to help global OpenPOWER Foundation members engage with China organizations… Read more
On Chip Controller (OCC)
Objective Demonstrate POWER processor and memory capabilities that can be exploited using open source OCC firmware. Abstract The On Chip Controller (OCC) is a co-processor… Read more
FPGA Acceleration in a Power8 Cloud
Abstract OpenStack is one of the popular software that people use to run a cloud. It managers hardware resources like memory, disks, X86 and… Read more
SuperVessel — OpenPOWER R&D cloud with operation and practice experience sharing
Abstract SuperVessel cloud (www.ptopenlab.com) is the cloud platform built on top of POWER/OpenPOWER architecture technologies. It aims to provide the open remote access for… Read more
HPC solution stack on OpenPOWER
Introduction to Authors Bin Xu: Male, IBM STG China, advisory software engineer, PCM architect, mainly focus on High Performance Computing and Software Define environment.… Read more
Power and Speed: Maximizing Application Performance on IBM Power Systems with XL C/C++ Compiler
Presentation Objective How to optimize your application to fully exploit the functionality of your POWER system. Abstract This presentation will provide the latest news… Read more
XL C/C++ and GPU Programming on Power Systems
Presentation Objective Provide information on the integration the nVidia Tesla GPU with IBM’s POWER8 processor and details on how to develop on this platform… Read more
POWER8 — the first OpenPOWER processor
Abstract The POWER8 processor is the latest RISC (Reduced Instruction Set Computer) microprocessor from IBM and the first processor supporting the new OpenPOWER software… Read more
Data Centric Interactive Visualization of Very Large Data
Speakers: Bruce D’Amora and Gordon Fossum Organization: IBM T.J. Watson Research, Data Centric Systems Group Abstract The traditional workflow for high-performance computing simulation and… Read more
Key-Value Store Acceleration with OpenPOWER
Objective To show-case a broadly relevant data center application on FPGAs and OpenPOWER and the benefits it can bring To demonstrate the advantages that… Read more
Tyan OpenPOWER products and future product plans
Presentation Objectives Invited to participate in OpenPOWER Foundation, TYAN developed the OpenPOWER reference board following the spirit of innovation and collaboration that defines the… Read more
Trusted Computing Applied in OpenPOWER Linux
Introduction to Authors Mao Qiu Yin: Male, Teamsun, Director Zhiqiang Tian: Male, Teamsun, SW Developer Background The computer system security problem is more and… Read more
Reflections on Migrating IBM APP Genomic Workflow Acceleration to IBM POWER8
Author: Chandler Wilkerson, Rice University Objective To describe the challenges and lessons learned while installing the IBM Power Ready Platform for Genomic Workflow Acceleration on… Read more
Life at the Intersection: OpenPOWER, Open Compute, and the Future of Cloud Software & Infrastructure
Objectives Provide Rackspace’s a point of view about what “the Cloud” needs from OpenPOWER, OCP, and developers in major software initiatives (Open Stack, Linux,… Read more
Linking up CPTA and OPF global members, to help global OPF member to use CPTA as a stepping stone to go into China market
Speaker Mr. Zhu Ya Dong, Chairman of PowerCore, China, Platinum Member of OpenPOWER Foundation Objective The objective is to position China POWER Technology Alliance… Read more
Using NVM Express SSDs and CAPI to Accelerate Data-Center Applications in OpenPOWER Systems
Organization PMC-Sierra, OpenPOWER Silver Member Objective The objective of this presentation is to showcase how NVM Express and CAPI can be used together to… Read more
PGI compilers for OpenPOWER platforms, which will enable seamless migration of multi-core and GPU-enabled HPC applications from Linux/x86 to OpenPOWER
Presentation objective PGI Fortran, C and C++ compilers & tools are used on Linux/x86 processor-based systems at over 5000 high-performance computing (HPC) sites around the… Read more
NVIDIA Tesla Accelerated Computing Platform for IBM Power
Abstract Learn how applications can be accelerated on IBM Power8 systems with NVIDIA® Tesla® Accelerated Computing Platform, the leading platform for accelerating big data analytics and scientific computing. The platform combines the world’s fastest GPU accelerators,… Read more
Enabling Coherent FPGA Acceleration
Speaker: Allan Cantle – President & Founder, Nallatech Speaker Organization: ISI / Nallatech Presentation Objective To introduce the audience to IBM’s Coherent Attached Processor… Read more
The Future of Interconnect with OpenPOWER
Abstract Mellanox Technologies is a founding member of the OpenPOWER Foundation and is also the foundation for scalable and performance demanding computing infrastructures. Delivering… Read more
One-click Hadoop cluster deployment on OpenPower systems running KVM and managed by Openstack
Hadoop workloads are memory and compute intensive and Power servers are best choice for hadoop workloads. The Power servers are first processor designed to… Read more
Porting Scientific Applications to OpenPOWER
Speaker and co-authors Dirk Pleiter (Jülich Supercomputing Centre) Andrew Adinets (JSC), Hans Böttiger (IBM), Paul Baumeister (JSC), Thorsten Hater (JSC), Uwe Fischer (IBM) Abstract… Read more
Using Docker in High Performance Computing in OpenPOWER Environment
Introduction to Authors Min Xue Bin: Male, IBM STG China, advisory software engineer, LSF developer, mainly focus on High Performance Computing. Ding Zhao Hui:… Read more
Introducing the Little-Endian OpenPOWER Software Development Environment and its application programming interfaces
Presented by: Michael Gschwind Over the past three decades, the Power Architecture has been an important asset in IBM’s systems strategy. During the time, Power-based… Read more
Changing the Game: Accelerating Applications and Improving Performance For Greater Data Center Efficiency
Abstract Planning for exascale, accelerating time to discovery and extracting results from massive data sets requires organizations to continually seek faster and more efficient… Read more
How Ubuntu is enabling OpenPOWER and innovation Randall Ross (Canonical)
Objective Geared towards a business audience that has some understanding of POWER and cloud technology, and would like to gain a better understanding of… Read more
Accelerator Opportunities with OpenPower
Abstract The OpenPower architecture provides unique capabilities which will enable highly effective and differentiated acceleration solutions. The OpenPower Accelerator Workgroup is chartered to develop… Read more
Enabling financial service firms to compute heterogeneously with Gateware Defined Networking (GDN) to build order books and trade with the lowest latency.
Abstract and Objectives Stock, futures, and option exchanges; market makers; hedge funds; and traders require real-time knowledge of the best bid and ask prices… Read more
The Disruptive Technology of OpenPOWER
The OpenPOWER Foundation is certainly carrying some strong momentum as it enters its second year. As we look forward there are many things still… Read more
OpenPOWER Foundation Technical Initiatives
Abstract As the Chair of the OpenPOWER Technical Steering Committee Mr. Brown will be discussing the technical agenda of the OpenPOWER Foundation and the… Read more
Advancing the OpenPOWER vision
Abstract It’s been nearly a year since the public launch of OpenPower and the community of technology leaders that make up our community have made… Read more
Driving Open Collaboration in the Datacenter
Rapid Growth of the OpenPOWER Foundation Reflects the Need for IT Collaboration and Innovation that Extends Down to the Chip By Calista Redmond, Director,… Read more
OCC Firmware Code is Now Open Source
by Todd Rosedahl, Chief Energy Management Engineer on POWER Today, IBM has released another key piece of infrastructure to the OpenPOWER community. The firmware… Read more
Porting GPU-Accelerated Applications to POWER8 Systems
By Mark Harris With the US Department of Energy’s announcement of plans to base two future flagship supercomputers on IBM POWER CPUs, NVIDIA GPUs, and… Read more
SC14: OpenPOWER and the State of Supercomputing
By Ken King, GM of OpenPOWER Alliances, IBM Last week, SC14 brought together the brightest minds and organizations in the high-performance computing (HPC) industry.… Read more
Mellanox and OpenPOWER Partners Sponsor “Innov8 with POWER8” Academic Challenge
By Scot Schultz, Director of HPC and Technical Computing, Mellanox Technologies Mellanox has partnered with IBM and a group of fellow OpenPOWER Foundation member… Read more
How the IBM-GLOBALFOUNDRIES Agreement Supports OpenPOWER’s Efforts
By Brad McCredie, President of OpenPOWER and IBM Fellow and Vice President of Power Development On Monday IBM and GLOBALFOUNDRIES announced that they had… Read more
TYAN’s OpenPOWER Customer Reference System Now Available
Source: Tyan
Innovative, Collaborative and Open Open resources, management flexibility, and hardware customization are becoming more important to IT experts across various industries. To meet the… Read more
World’s First OpenPOWER App Throwdown Showcases Five Strong ISV Innovations
By Terri Virnig, Vice President, Power Ecosystem and Strategy, IBM Systems & Technology Group Last year, IBM and the founders of the OpenPOWER Foundation… Read more
Opening Up in New Ways: How the OpenPOWER Foundation is Taking Open to New Places
By Jim Zemlin – August 25, 2014 It’s no secret that open development is the key to rapid and continuous technology innovation. Openly sharing… Read more
Unchaining the data center with OpenPOWER: Reengineering a server ecosystem
By Michael Gschwind, STSM & Senior Manager, System Architecture, IBM Later today at HOT CHIPS a leading semiconductor conference, I will be providing an update on… Read more
Members can now request early access to Tyan reference board
We are excited with the progress that the OpenPOWER Foundation member companies have made since our public launch in San Francisco back in April. Members can… Read more
Blog | IT powers new business models
Source: News Bytes
People and businesses today are rapidly adopting new technologies and devices that are transforming the way they interact with each other and their data.… Read more
Canonical Supporting IBM POWER8 for Ubuntu Cloud, Big Data
Source: The VAR Guy
If Ubuntu Linux is to prove truly competitive in theOpenStack cloud and Big Data worlds, it needs to run on more than x86 hardware. And that’s whatCanonical achieved… Read more
As Computing Tasks Evolve, Infrastructure Must Adapt
Source: Forbes
The litany of computing buzzwords has been repeated so often that we’ve almost glazed over: mobile, social, cloud, crowd, big data, analytics. After a… Read more
Making Power Open to the Enterprising Masses
Source: IBM Research News Blog
Since its development in the 1990s, IBM Power Systems served databases. They crunched big data for big business better than anyone else in the… Read more
IBM is changing the server game
Source: Disk91
There was something I missed on the IBM strategy when they sold x86 branch to Lenovo. Since I read some articles about OpenPower and Google home made… Read more
Google Shows Off Hardware Design Using IBM Chips
Source: WSJ
It’s no secret that IBM wants to move its technology into the kind of data centers that Google GOOGL -0.47% and other Web giants operate. Now comes evidence… Read more